Todmorden. The town hall straddles the historic boundary between Lancashire and somewhere else
A short distance from Todmorden is the hamlet of Oldroyd.
Oldroyd: a collection of weavers' cottages grouped around Oldroyd farm on the south slope of the Calder valley.
Just that !
Oldroyd Cottages
Earlier cottages
Oldroyd Farm - grade 2 listed building dating from the 18th Century.
The view from Oldroyd of the Calder valley, with the Rochdale Canal in the middle distance.
The horse troughs, for pack and cart horses making their way over the Pennines
Oldroyd Road looking towards Mankinholes
Lumbutts Mill, looking towards Stoudley Pike
Lumbutts Methodist Church and graveyard. The lower floor was the church school.
The gateway to Lumbutts Methodist Church
The view of the Calder valley towards Heptonstall, from above Lumbutts.
A typical, but now little used Pennine lane above Oldroyd.
A typical style of the area.
From Lumbutts, the path follows the Causeway which leads East over the moors towards Cragg Vale and Mytholmroyd.
Looking back down the Causeway. One explanation for the paved path is that they allowed travellers to follow the route in the dark without the need of a light.
Stoodley Pike. The original monument, rebuilt in the mid-19th Century, celebrated the end of the Napoleonic wars.
A view of Todmorden in the Calder valley, with the Cliviger Gorge behind, which leads to Burnley.
Warland Reservoir
The valve tower on Warland reservoir
Warland reservoir looking North
The moors, a late autumn afternoon
A solitary pastime.
The rocks are stunning.
Layered gritstone.
The reservoirs are fed by contour hugging catchment channels which wend around the sides of the moors, and provide nice flat walking. A view towards Blackstone Edge.
Every now and again, the channels are crossed by small stone bridges.
The "Roman Road" across Blackstone edge, looking towards Littleborough.
The "Roman Road" looking uphill towards the Aigin Stone
The Aigin Stone
The rocky summit plateau of Blackstone Edge.
Blackstone Edge.
The summit, Blackstone Edge.
The modern intrusion of the M62
The Pennine Way crosses the M62 on a narrowfootbridge, from which this photograph is taken.
On White Hill the clouds descend, these pillars mark the pack horse track from Haigh Gutter to Marsden.
